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Perhaps the most eye-catching element when one first looked upon the stage Friday night was the Boston Shawm & Sackbut Ensemble with its unusual ancient instruments. Directed by Daniel Stillman, this group provided excellent accompaniment for the choir and soloists. They had a warm, clear, and muted sound typical of Renaissance instruments that showcased their musicality but never overshadowed the singers. It was especially interesting to note how the two players of the violini da brazzo (precursors to the modern violin) held their instruments in the crook of the arm, rather than under the chin. These two violini...
...Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble performs Renaissance music at 8 p.m. in the First Church Congregational, Cambridge...
...site of the Mary Rose had yielded a fabulous trove of Tudor memorabilia. Aside from cannons, by 1979 the divers began to bring up boxes of clothing, medicine chests and such objects as carpenters' tools, coins and pocket sundials, the Tudor equivalent of watches. One special find: a shawm, the 16th century forerunner of the oboe. Few other examples of the antique instrument are known to exist. Also recovered were the bones of about 100 drowned men. Scientists are studying them for clues about nutrition and disease in the Tudor...
Come hear the sackbut, shawm and Medici Philharmonic...
...been gloriously gifted; it stood to reason that the musicians had been too. Yet there was scant record of what their work sounded like. The scores that survived were in archaic, sometimes cryptic notation. The original instruments-for instance, the sackbut, a precursor of the trombone, and the shawm, a sort of oboe with a cold-often were found only among museum relics or glimpsed in old paintings; even when they were reconstructed, few performers knew how to tune or play them. But in the past few decades there has been a revolution in early music. Dozens of scholarly, dedicated...